Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Below we inform you about which personal data we process when you use our website barth.eu. Personal data is any data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail address or IP address.

§ 1 Controller and data protection officer

The controller pursuant to Art. 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is

barth Spedition GmbH
Im Nasswasen 1, 72379 Hechingen
represented by the managing director Mr Werner Dettenthaler
E-mail: contact(at)barth.eu

You can reach our data protection officer at datenschutzbeauftragter(at)barth.eu or at the postal address above, marked “zu Händen des Datenschutzbeauftragten” (for the attention of the data protection officer).

§ 2 The key points at a glance

• We do not use cookies or any comparable technologies (e.g. local storage).
• We do not use any analytics, tracking or advertising services, nor any chat.
• All components of the website – texts, images, videos, design and scripts – are loaded from our web server. No third-party content is embedded.
• Our web server does not store any access logs (log files).
• We only process personal data if you contact us via a form or by e-mail.

§ 3 Accessing the website

(1) When you access our website, your browser transmits data to our web server for technical reasons, in particular your IP address, the date and time of the request, the page accessed, the website from which you came, and information about your browser and operating system. We use this data exclusively to display the website to you. It is not stored; we do not keep access logs.
(2) We log technical errors of the server for troubleshooting purposes without the IP address and without any other information about your person.
(3) The transmission between your browser and our server is encrypted (HTTPS).
(4) The legal basis is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in providing the website securely and in working order.

§ 4 Contacting us by e-mail and via our forms

(1) On our website we offer a contact form, a pick-up form (Pick up) and a form for price requests. Mandatory fields are marked. Depending on the form, we process the information you enter, e.g. name, company, contact person, address, telephone number, e-mail address, shipment details (pick-up and delivery address, quantity, packaging, dimensions, weight, value of goods) and your message.
(2) After you submit the form, your information is transmitted in encrypted form to our web server, checked there for completeness and forwarded by e-mail via our mail server to our mailbox contact(at)barth.eu. The form contents are not stored on the web server itself. If you write to us directly by e-mail, we process the information contained in your e-mail.
(3) We use your information exclusively to process your enquiry or your order. The legal basis is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 (b) GDPR, insofar as your enquiry is aimed at the conclusion or performance of a contract, and otherwise Art. 6(1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in responding to your enquiry).
(4) If you provide data of other persons (e.g. contact persons at the sender or consignee), we likewise use this data only to process the order.
(5) We delete the data as soon as its storage is no longer necessary, or restrict its processing if statutory retention obligations apply.
(6) Protection against misuse: In order to prevent automated mass requests (spam), the forms contain a field that is invisible to humans and a check of the time taken to fill in the form. In addition, we limit the number of submissions per internet connection. For this purpose, a non-reversible check value (hash) is generated from your IP address using a secret key and stored together with the time of submission; the IP address itself is not stored. The check value is no longer taken into account after 10 minutes and is then automatically deleted. The legal basis is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in protection against misuse.
(7) For operational purposes, the form function only records technical events (e.g. time, form and whether the message was sent) – without form contents and without IP address.

§ 5 Links to other websites and social networks

(1) Our website contains links to external services, e.g. to our profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and kununu, to our job portal, to online forms (Microsoft Forms), to our e-Portal and whistleblower portal, and to websites of partners and associations. These are simple links, not embedded social media plug-ins: no data is transmitted to these providers when you access our website.
(2) Only when you click on a link are you taken to the page of the respective provider. As a rule, the provider then learns that you have come from our website. The data processing there is governed by the privacy notices of the respective provider.

§ 6 Disclosure of data

We do not pass on your data for advertising purposes. Data is only transferred to third parties insofar as this is necessary to process your enquiry or your order (Art. 6(1) sentence 1 (b) GDPR) or we are legally obliged to do so (Art. 6(1) sentence 1 (c) GDPR).

§ 7 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights vis-à-vis us with regard to the personal data concerning you:
– right of access (Art. 15 GDPR),
– right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR),
– right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
– right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR),
– right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR). If we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR, you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation.
(2) To exercise your rights, a message to contact(at)barth.eu or to our data protection officer is sufficient.
(3) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us (Art. 77 GDPR), e.g. with the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg (State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Baden-Württemberg).

§ 8 Currency of this policy

This privacy policy is as of October 2026. We will adapt it if our website or the legal requirements change.